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you killed detroit. you killed detroit. you killed detroit. everybody killed detroit. [ cheers and applause ] now nobody gets a car. well, actually you do but it's a more affordable car imported from countries like. ♪ japan and. ♪ korea where the cars are cheaper because the prices aren't pushed up by things like. ♪ higher labor costs look, these musicals are catchy. that's a fact. i don't want to argue about it. folks, if everyone created this mess, who ultimately is going to pay the price for it? will it be, a, vulnerable working class retirees. or will it be, b, it's a. >> workers are bracing for what could happen to their pensions and health care. >> the real victims are going to be people who are essentially going to see their contracts with detroit broken. pensioners, public sector workers. folks in unions. >> i get it. so detroit's auto industry was too big to fail but detroit's public sector workers are just small enough not to give a [bleep] about it. here is how crazy this story is is. we all detroit to emerge from bankruptcy o
you killed detroit. you killed detroit. you killed detroit. everybody killed detroit. [ cheers and applause ] now nobody gets a car. well, actually you do but it's a more affordable car imported from countries like. ♪ japan and. ♪ korea where the cars are cheaper because the prices aren't pushed up by things like. ♪ higher labor costs look, these musicals are catchy. that's a fact. i don't want to argue about it. folks, if everyone created this mess, who ultimately is going to pay the...
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. >> stephen: speaking of institutions that have outlived their usefulness-- detroit. >> now detroit has fallen on such hard times the city is filing for bankruptcy, becoming the largest u.s. city to do so >> move is unprecedented. the biggest municipal bankruptcy in american history. a major u.s. city officially declaring it cannot pay its debt estimated at $18 billion. >> stephen: $18 billion! and detroit borrowed those billions from some pretty serious people. if they don't get paid, they've thrented to cut off michigan's thumb. ( laughter ) now, it turns out, robo cop was an optimistic view of detroit's future because the numbers tell the story. the city's population has dwibdle twd 2 million to 700,000. detroit has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and at 73,000 abandoned buildings. knowing how far the city has fallen would have henry ford rolling over in his grave and somehow blaming the jews for it. notice, there are a lot of theories out there, about what caused detroit's decline-- manufacturing jobs going overseas. corrupt politicians. but the easiest explanation
. >> stephen: speaking of institutions that have outlived their usefulness-- detroit. >> now detroit has fallen on such hard times the city is filing for bankruptcy, becoming the largest u.s. city to do so >> move is unprecedented. the biggest municipal bankruptcy in american history. a major u.s. city officially declaring it cannot pay its debt estimated at $18 billion. >> stephen: $18 billion! and detroit borrowed those billions from some pretty serious people. if they...
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the purchase of the property for $1 billion from the city of detroit, which would really help detroit. >> stephen: yes, yes, greatly help detroit. because what they really needs is a pristine private island that they can see from the bars of their post-industrial hellscape. so thank you, rod lockwood, for showing the people of detroit that when life gives you lemons take the lemons to your own island so you can don't have to share the lemonade. [cheers and applause] well, that's it for colbert platinum. join me next time when i show you how to turn a waldorf salad into a waiter losing his job. i said no green apples! [laughter] we'll be right back. ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you so much. thanks so much. [cheers and applause] folks, we all know that the obama presidency is one of the most secretive in history. there hasn't been an administration this private since the secret presidency of rocky t. pendergrass, who made his name by invading terabithia. [laughter] don't believe me? look it up in the history books. you won't find it. [laughter] we
the purchase of the property for $1 billion from the city of detroit, which would really help detroit. >> stephen: yes, yes, greatly help detroit. because what they really needs is a pristine private island that they can see from the bars of their post-industrial hellscape. so thank you, rod lockwood, for showing the people of detroit that when life gives you lemons take the lemons to your own island so you can don't have to share the lemonade. [cheers and applause] well, that's it for...
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>> yes. >> stephen: why did you go back to detroit? >> i changed. i was the big shot norkts -- "new york times" guy. >> stephen: right pulitzer prize in your pocket. >> his a kidful. it changes everything. i look at it like this is what we're giving our kids. we have to fix with. we moved home to be with grandma, aunts and umpg. s. my wife is from there as well. i look and say to my people, what do you do here? >> stephen: what did they do? there were 8.5 million at one point and now there's 700,000 and change. >> in the 50s more people left then than at any other time. the suburbs were growing and the mecca can call cotton pickers. we never had to address racial issues. >> stephen: the white people were the on the outside. >> it was legal to bar jews and blacks from neighborhoods until the 1950's until michigan. in the north they never taught us that. >> stephen: i'm from the south. we're supposed to be the racists. >> right on, brother. >> stephen: but obama saved the auto industry, right? it's booming, america is back this is the second half said
>> yes. >> stephen: why did you go back to detroit? >> i changed. i was the big shot norkts -- "new york times" guy. >> stephen: right pulitzer prize in your pocket. >> his a kidful. it changes everything. i look at it like this is what we're giving our kids. we have to fix with. we moved home to be with grandma, aunts and umpg. s. my wife is from there as well. i look and say to my people, what do you do here? >> stephen: what did they do? there...
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detroit michigan. the city that is doing perfectly fine and needs absolutely no free outside help regarding the infrastructure. al will explain. >> government spending is out of control. take the hard hit city of detroit. they are trying trying to builda billion dollar bridge to canada even though they have the ambassador bridge. fortunately detroiters of all walks are taking a stand. soccer moms. >> detroit does not need another bridge. >> tea partyers. >> it's not just detroit it's michigan tasms. >> even the black panthers. we don't need a new bridge. we need to spend money on feeding the needy. no second bridge period. we don't need it, we don't want it. >> mo bridges, mo problems, am i right? no. canada is acting like it makes fiscal sense for the u.s. >> the old bridge won't last forever. we don't know how long it's going to last. two million u.s. jobs alone depend on the trade that that bridge carries. >> but you realize this is not the time for american taxpayers to be forced to pay for a new b
detroit michigan. the city that is doing perfectly fine and needs absolutely no free outside help regarding the infrastructure. al will explain. >> government spending is out of control. take the hard hit city of detroit. they are trying trying to builda billion dollar bridge to canada even though they have the ambassador bridge. fortunately detroiters of all walks are taking a stand. soccer moms. >> detroit does not need another bridge. >> tea partyers. >> it's not just...
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how do we save detroit? >> i would say. >> stephen: they just declared bankruptcy? how do you pay off that debt? you are still in michigan. >> dearborn. >> ten, 20 miles from detroit? what do we do? do we pay off the debt by just pulling the gold from the pensioners or do we just let the great moat reclaim dedetroit? what do we do? >> i think they are doing the right thing and addressing all of the areas of concern, everybody has to pull together and develop a better plan. the thing about ford, though, stephen is that even though we are not inside detroit itself we are very close as you said and all of our operations are there, our suppliers are there and based on the strength of our products we are actually growing profitably and hiring 15,000 new employees, which is the best we can do to help detroit. >> stephen: not union, though, you are not hiring union, are you? >> yes a lot are represented by union. >> unions are what are destroying america don't you understand that? it is in the union charter, destroy america. dental coverage and destroy america. >> well, as
how do we save detroit? >> i would say. >> stephen: they just declared bankruptcy? how do you pay off that debt? you are still in michigan. >> dearborn. >> ten, 20 miles from detroit? what do we do? do we pay off the debt by just pulling the gold from the pensioners or do we just let the great moat reclaim dedetroit? what do we do? >> i think they are doing the right thing and addressing all of the areas of concern, everybody has to pull together and develop a...
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starting with salmon that bee in detroit, sam, any updates? i know things are pretty grim over there. >> oh, john t is worse than you could possibly imagine. >> right. >> a once proud american institution brought to its knees by gross mismanagement and incompetent leadership. you know, you wonder if it will ever again be the icon it was once. >> but sam, on the other hand, detroit is resilient, will will bounce back, shortly opinions detroit, no, i'm talking about the daily show. >> come on. >> it took decades to bring detroit to its knees but you destroyed the daily show in like three months. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. go a little easy. >> you're faster than ebola. what? >> i would say that i'm speaking truth to power but you have to power and whatever power you thought you had ends in about six minutes which is less time than it takes to make a hot pocket, but enough time i'm sure for you to [bleep] the show even further until it begs to be put out of its missery. >> thank you, samantha. let's go to jessica williams, jess, where exactly are you. >
starting with salmon that bee in detroit, sam, any updates? i know things are pretty grim over there. >> oh, john t is worse than you could possibly imagine. >> right. >> a once proud american institution brought to its knees by gross mismanagement and incompetent leadership. you know, you wonder if it will ever again be the icon it was once. >> but sam, on the other hand, detroit is resilient, will will bounce back, shortly opinions detroit, no, i'm talking about the...
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this morning it is reality in detroit. the motor city filed for chapter 9 protection yesterday. >> mo town is singing the blues. town tonight is no town.
this morning it is reality in detroit. the motor city filed for chapter 9 protection yesterday. >> mo town is singing the blues. town tonight is no town.
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. >> stephen: you were a detroit rocker at first, right? >> yes. stephen: that motown sound like the supremes, you know, that rich kind of tight harmonies, synchronized dancing? that stuff is great. >> but i'm just a simple kid. i didn't know how. so i did what i could. >> stephen: when did you start taking off here? first of all, thank you for wearing almost a shirt tonight. ( cheers and applause ). thank you. why did you first start taking off your shirt when performing. >> the pharaoh never wore a shirt. >> stephen: i'm sorry. the pharaoh of egypt never wore a shirt. >> stephen: yeah. he also wore like a... >> i wore skirts from time to time, sarongs. >> stephen: a sarongs. or little underwear. stephen: when you perform at this point, could you wear a shirt or would your body reject it like a bad organ? >> it rejects it. i try. i think about it. then it just rejects it. it's true. >> stephen: who do you... you say you're in the rock'n'roll hall of fame. who did you look up to as amuseical mentor because they say the beatles wanted to sound like
. >> stephen: you were a detroit rocker at first, right? >> yes. stephen: that motown sound like the supremes, you know, that rich kind of tight harmonies, synchronized dancing? that stuff is great. >> but i'm just a simple kid. i didn't know how. so i did what i could. >> stephen: when did you start taking off here? first of all, thank you for wearing almost a shirt tonight. ( cheers and applause ). thank you. why did you first start taking off your shirt when...
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jon: that's a different animal than the types of gun violence in new york city organize chicago or detroit. and there must be, i would think, law enforcement voices who could speak out on what makes their job easier or what makes their ability to stop effective. what is the he have casecy of these things -- efficacy of these things? >> i think you're right. it comes to the people turning it around that saying they are going to try to take the guy's gun who goes hunt organize lives in the country. that's not what it's about. it's about keeping these weapons with the tremendous killing power out of hands of deranged people. that does not seem to be all that radical an idea. people keep rat poisoning in the house to kill rodents but they keep it on the top shelf. they don't keep it where the children can get it. >> jon: i have to make a phonecall. [ laughter ] is there discussion in the news room, do people say, you know so much of the conversation is about what are the political ramifications of this? will he be able to get that through? will people call in tyranny and threaten? it seems the
jon: that's a different animal than the types of gun violence in new york city organize chicago or detroit. and there must be, i would think, law enforcement voices who could speak out on what makes their job easier or what makes their ability to stop effective. what is the he have casecy of these things -- efficacy of these things? >> i think you're right. it comes to the people turning it around that saying they are going to try to take the guy's gun who goes hunt organize lives in the...
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. >> are you been to detroit? >> we don't send the poor to the united states into battle killing each other. >> no, but this might be agi start. >> there's a new plan in tennessee that affects family welfare payment and ties them to the children of those resip yenlts performance in school. you get lower grades you get lower payments. >> while it didn't go through we have to be prepared another one. i gather potential tributed from manhattan's ps32 to see if they were ready for battle. >> who had breakfast in this morning? they were clearly overfed. it's like they didn't want to inflict harm on one other. so cute. i have news for you. cute is not (bleep) when the hunger games goes down. maybe if i kept them out there long enough they would get scrapie. everybody see that she's hungry. all right, kids, juice box time. how desperate will they get? the kids just might be hungry enough to be hungry. try this. yep. now aim for the hungriest one. [ applause ] >> jon: jessica ,x [cheers and applause] >> jon: my guest toni
. >> are you been to detroit? >> we don't send the poor to the united states into battle killing each other. >> no, but this might be agi start. >> there's a new plan in tennessee that affects family welfare payment and ties them to the children of those resip yenlts performance in school. you get lower grades you get lower payments. >> while it didn't go through we have to be prepared another one. i gather potential tributed from manhattan's ps32 to see if they...
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marking the first time an american city has been completely shut down if you don't count detroit. ( laughter ) it is-- it is unprecedented, folks. cnn's susan candiotti 7, i think, capturedly the feeling best. >> the streets are empty. it's ear. it's as though a bomb had dropped somewhere. ( laughter ) >> stephen: well said. that's cnn susan candiotti reporting live from no-(bleep)ylvania. ( laughter ) ( applause ) they finally caught white hat guy hiding in a boat, and he's been formally charged. the question is how should the united states respond to this act of terror? where should we strike back? well, let's review what we know. they are muslims. they are brothers. which makes them the muslim brotherhood. ( laughter ). that means egypt. ( laughter ) then again, they are from chechnya, a federal republic of the russian federation located in the caucasuses mountains, which makes these terrorists caucasians. ( laughter ). so be on the lookout for caucasian males with dark hair and anger issue, and i believe we have a computer composite. ( laughter ) yes. ( applause ) that is the face of evi
marking the first time an american city has been completely shut down if you don't count detroit. ( laughter ) it is-- it is unprecedented, folks. cnn's susan candiotti 7, i think, capturedly the feeling best. >> the streets are empty. it's ear. it's as though a bomb had dropped somewhere. ( laughter ) >> stephen: well said. that's cnn susan candiotti reporting live from no-(bleep)ylvania. ( laughter ) ( applause ) they finally caught white hat guy hiding in a boat, and he's been...
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that would make the guy at fry station the richest man in detroit. [ cheers and applause ] i say your fries are ready. i say the problem isn't that the minimum wage is too low. it's that the poors out there don't know how to handle their cash. >> many of the poor will use the money irresponsibly. >> there is a reason for poverty in america. it's usually personal responsibility. >> poverty is not just an economic problem. it is a social problem and a social responsibility problem. personal responsibility problem. you know that's true. >> stephen: yes, it doesn't matter how little you are paid. if you're poor, it's your fault. i get that. but then again i'm not poor and if i were, i wouldn't be. because i would turn being poor into an "opp-poor-tunity" -- okay, trademark -- and mcdonald's agrees with me. instead of raising salaries they're giving their workers something more valuable than money: a website. >> if there's anything we've learned in these tough economic times it's to budget and save for the future, right? well, macdonald's thought it was helping its employees by giving them
that would make the guy at fry station the richest man in detroit. [ cheers and applause ] i say your fries are ready. i say the problem isn't that the minimum wage is too low. it's that the poors out there don't know how to handle their cash. >> many of the poor will use the money irresponsibly. >> there is a reason for poverty in america. it's usually personal responsibility. >> poverty is not just an economic problem. it is a social problem and a social responsibility...